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Europe’s Trawlers Extract a Huge ‘Cost to Society’ in Bycatch and Carbon Dioxide

Bottom trawlers drag giant nets across the ocean floor, releasing stored CO2 and killing up to 75 percent of the marine life unintentionally caught up in the process.

By Johnny Sturgeon

A bottom trawling boat is seen at sea. Credit: Open Seas/National Geographic Pristine Seas
Homes and a hotel sit in front of a steel factory in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. Credit: Michel Porro/Getty Images

The 4-Billion-Year Perspective to Understanding Earth’s Current Climate Crisis

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

An aerial view of British Steel’s Scunthorpe mill on April 12, 2025, in Scunthorpe, England. Activities such as steelmaking have disrupted the Earth’s energy balance. Credit: Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images

Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit New Extremes

By Bob Berwyn

Professor Ralph Keeling, son of Charles David Keeling, demonstrates how a sample of air is collected to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on April 11 as part of the Keeling Curve monitoring study at the UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

Global Scientists Anticipate Less Reliance on the US in Future Carbon Monitoring

By Marianne Lavelle

A view of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) payload on its way to the International Space Station in 2019. Credit: Christina Koch/NASA

Will NASA Kill a Pair of Critical Climate Satellites?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Woods Hole researchers, Adam Subhas (left) and Chris Murray, conducted a series of lab experiments earlier this year to test the impact of an alkaline substance, known as sodium hydroxide, on copepods in the Gulf of Maine. Credit: Daniel Hentz/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Can We Alter the Ocean to Counter Climate Change Faster? This Experiment Aims to Find Out

By Teresa Tomassoni

Patrick Hanks, chief technology officer of Graphitic Energy, talks about the carbon formation vessel on the company’s San Antonio pilot project, which pulls solid carbon graphite out of methane gas. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Startups Make Products From the Carbon in Fossil Fuels

By Dylan Baddour

A view of the coal-fired Oak Grove Power Plant in Robertson County, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

 The True Cost of Pretending Climate Change Doesn’t Exist

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

New data from NOAA shows that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide increased at a record rate in 2024, partly as a result of continued burning of coal for energy like at the Jänschwalde lignite-fired power plant in Germany. Credit: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images

A Grim Signal: Atmospheric CO2 Soared in 2024

By Bob Berwyn

An aerial view of a village in the Chiquitania region of Bolivia on Feb. 12. Credit: Rodrigo Urzagasti/AFP via Getty Images

Is Bolivia’s $1.2 Billion Deal to Protect Its Forests a Climate Boon—or a False Solution?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Bobby Jones stands in front of Duke Energy's STAR facility in Goldsboro, N.C. Jones co-founded the Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition, which advocates for people in eastern North Carolina burdened by pollution. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

As the Clock Ticks to Act on the Climate Crisis, N.C. Activists Target a ‘Carbon Plan’

By Lisa Sorg

A view of traffic on California State Route 91 in Yorba Linda on Aug. 28. In its wish list for the incoming Trump administration, API asked to repeal the tailpipe and fuel economy standards for cars and trucks. Credit: Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images

Oil Industry Asks Trump to Repeal Major Climate Policies

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Cows graze on pastureland in Caernarvon Township, Pa. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Returning Grazing Land to Native Forests Would Yield Big Climate Benefits

By Georgina Gustin

A woman drops off food scraps at a city compost collection site in Queens, New York. Credit: Lindsey Nicholson/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Curbside ‘Composting’ Is Finally Citywide in New York. Or Is It?

By Jake Bolster

A view of Archer-Daniels-Midland's processing complex in Decatur, Illinois. Credit: PR Newswire

A Carbon Capture Monitoring Well Leaked in Illinois. Most Residents Found Out When the World Did

By Nina B. Elkadi

Sonia Sanchez, a notary in Buttonwillow, California, has helped organize local opposition to a proposed carbon storage project in Kern County. Credit: Joshua Yeager/KVPR

Proposals to Build California’s First Carbon Storage Facilities Face a Key Test

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News and Joshua Yeager, KVPR

Direct air capture, a technique that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, has been growing in popularity over the past decade, but critics worry that it is too energy-intensive. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

Carbon Removals Aren’t Just About Getting the Science Right

By Mathilde Augustin

The Supreme Court is seen on Feb. 21 in Washington, as the court hears arguments challenging the Biden administration's effort to reduce air pollution using the Clean Air Act. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Memo to the Supreme Court: Clean Air Act Targeted CO2 as Climate Pollutant, Study Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Snowy River Carbon Sequestration Project will use the space under this federal public land in Carter County, Montana, as a storage vessel for greenhouse gas emissions. Credit: Najifa Farhat/Inside Climate News

Montana Is a Frontier for Deep Carbon Storage, and the Controversies Surrounding the Potential Climate Solution

By Najifa Farhat

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